Today's new episode of The Tonearm Podcast features a conversation with audio engineer Billy Polo. As VP Records' in-house restoration engineer, he has spent years running original analog tapes from artists like Peter Tosh, King Jammy, and Lee "Scratch" Perry — working to preserve their recordings …
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I’m so excited to be teaching this workshop about playing with time in your writing, because it’s one of my favorite things to do - join me and start the summer joyfully breaking the laws of physics?
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I’ve still got these little corkers available if you like that kind of thing. They have colours and shapes and almost no people or lions or cups or bins.
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It's because a lot of people are into being "misinformation experts" primarily in order to get moral credentialing from it and not because of actually ever impacting the real world and real policies
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Chloe Cumming
Amber Sparks
Yvonne Lam
Chloe Cumming
Join Amber Sparks for Using the Literature of Time Travel to Play with Time in Your Writing. Discover techniques to craft captivating time-bending stories.
I don't think I've rattled the tin on Bluesky before, and I know everyone's got a cause, but here goes...
Liz was my sister-in-law so this is a cause that's really important to me. She lost a leg to adamintoma as a teenager, and her life to it in 2020.
www.justgiving.com/page/aspire-...
VP Records engineer Billy Polo on restoring reggae's rarest tapes, archiving Jamaican music history, and the art of mastering for digital.
“When you approach migration on a human level, you connect with it, whether it’s your culture or not, because it can be about triumph over adversity irrespective of gender, race, age.”
Renell Shaw on paying homage to Black British life in his new jazz trilogy:
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I'm glad to see Brendan being consistent here in calling this out, I've been surprised that many people who have talked about misinformation and public policy in the past have sort of sat this one out, on an issue that is very important to get right.
The Ivor Novello-winning musician has written works inspired by his family history. He talks about building music from testimony – and why the Windrush generation deserves new narratives
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"the water all American data centers will consume onsite in 2030 is equivalent to 8% of the water currently consumed by the US golf industry" or "water usage of 260 square miles of irrigated corn farms, equivalent to 1% of America’s total irrigated corn"
Amazon said its global data-center operations withdrew about 2.5 billion gallons of water in 2025, as data center companies around the world face growing scrutiny over the environmental impact of artificial intelligence.
The company said water use at sites it owns and operates directly fell 2% from 2024 levels, even while it expanded its data-center footprint.
